Recommend me a tire - Wheel and Tire Forum

I'm getting new rims and tires. I was originally going to go with General Exclaim's however with the soft side wall and 17" rims I can see bending a rim being a problem. I'm looking for something thats going to provide good wear and not too expensive. Around $130CDN a tire. Thanks for your help.

My dad is running the exclaims on his BMW (225/50/16) and our old vw cabrio had 205/40/17 exclaims and they were wicked as well, heck I think my buddy with his civic is running the 205/40/17 exclaims and he has nothing but good things to say about them too (these are all people who live in nova scotia). I would highly recommend these tires. I am running the altimax HP 225/50/15 but will be changing to the exclaims when these wear out. The exclaims have a little better traction than the altimax HP but I think the treadwear is 380 on the exclaims and its 440 on my altimax hp's. Unless your planning on running on woods roads I wouldn't recommend 17's but the roads aren't that bad. I wouldn't want to go much lower than a 40 profile in NS. I had a set of dunlop 205/40/16 when I bought my rims and I didn't have any problems with them on our roads (and they were used off a neon who also lived in the valley). Anyways, hope that helps you. I vote for the exclaims.

Exclaim UHP 215/45/17 here. Will be running my second summer on them and love them. Improved stock suspension handling so much, can't wait for this summer on my dspecs/road magnets. They do seem to roll a tiny, tiny bit on the sidewall, but then again I really pushed them because I was surprised that they handled so good for the price.